Netflix Sends Out a Warning to Those Who Don't Respect Spoilers

Anyone who has ever had a book/show/movie's plot spoiled prematurely, will know you feel just as terrible as Leonardo DiCaprio did, when he got shot at the end of The Departed by Matt Damon (oh...sorry).

But really, everyone hates spoiler alerts. Especially the generic mobster starring in this cinematic Netflix-produced ad, who explicitly shows the dire consequences that might happen when you don't ask what season/episode someone is on, before dropping a plot-busting spoiler bomb mid-conversation.

It even brings the viewer into the video by the end. And just how strongly fellow binge-watchers feel about spoiler alerts will leave you more surprised than Bruce Willis at the end of Sixth Sense, when he found out he was really dead the whole time (oh...sorry).

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As you can see, the honey-covered rat (that sounds confusingly delicious?) was just about to avoid the agonizing fate of being dropped into a pile of actual rats -- which is pretty much the most horrifying thing you could ever imagine -- before he spoils the gangster's current show.

A frame before we find out how the gangster will react to this blatant disregard for plot discretion, the video pauses, and puts the choice in our hands: what would you do?

So, 53% of viewers would let the man die a slow, terrifying, bitey death. Which I think is a little harsh. But obviously not as harsh as the end of of Se7en, when Gwyneth Paltrow's head is in the inside of that box. (I'M SORRY BUT ALL THOSE MOVIES HAVE BEEN OUT FOR MORE THAN A DECADE. JUST SEE THEM ALREADY.)

Wil Fulton is a Staff Writer for Thrillist. Those are all actually great movies, if you haven't seen them). Follow him @wilfulton

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